Aurel Manga (born 24 July 1992) is a French athlete specialising in hurdling. He finished sixth at the 2016 European Championships and fifth at the 2017 European Indoor Championships.

Career

His personal bests are 13.33 seconds in the 110 metres hurdles (+1.7 m/s, Angers 2016) and 7.53 seconds in the 60 metres hurdles (Bordeaux 2017).

Aurel Manga

On March 4, 2018, Manga won the bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships 2018 Birmingham in the 60 m hurdles, where Britain's Andrew Pozzi (7.46 seconds) beat America's Jarret Eaton (7.47 seconds) in a photo finish. He repeated his bronze medal win at the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, UK.

Aurel Manga

Personal life

Born in France, Manga is of Gabonese descent.

Aurel Manga

International competitions

References

1992 births

Living people

Athletes from Paris

French male hurdlers

World Athletics Championships athletes for France

Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Olympic athletes for France

French sportspeople of Gabonese descent

21st-century French people

Black French sportspeople